Obama arrives Saturday for Martha's Vineyard vacation

President Barack Obama will return to Martha’s Vineyard, for a two-week stay, starting Saturday.

While the president summers on the island, the U.S. military is turning more attention to Iraq, which is now embroiled in sectarian strife between the ruling government, the incursion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and Kurds in the north.

On Thursday night Obama announced he has authorized military strikes on ISIL forces to protect the city of Erbil where American diplomats, soldiers and civilians live and work. The president also authorized humanitarian air drops of food and water for Yezidi refugees hiding on a mountain from ISIL.

Some of Obama’s activities on the island will be catalogued by travel pool press. The president will attend a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee event on Monday, will return back to Washington for meetings between Sunday, Aug. 17 and Tuesday, Aug. 19, and plans to leave the Vineyard on Aug. 24.